Gracesbigsis
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My name is Katie and the reason I have AvPD is because of one subject that was sometimes only 2 days a week. The subject was PE and the kids were brutal. When I was eight years old, a little second grader, I was smaller than the other kids (despite being older than most of them because of when my birthday is) and I was thin and uninterested in athletics. I was never criticised for my looks because, I'm not going to lie, I've always been naturally pretty. But PE class was what shaped people's ego in elementary school and I'm afraid that I just wasn't good at it. I couldn't dribble a basketball or run very fast. People yelled at me. Soon they hit and made me cry right there in the middle of the blacktop. The teacher turned a blind eye to the situation. And it soon extended beyond PE class. The girls laughed at me because I couldn't play sports very well and I didn't watch the TV shows they did. The boys made fun of every word I said. And it all was because of one little subject. This extended beyond even that one year. I switched schools twice and every year I was hated and even beaten for not being good at sports. I soon just kept to myself. I stopped talking to people so they would stop making my words sound asinine. I stopped raising my hand in class so the kids wouldn't laugh at my question. And I stopped trying in PE after I got one teacher who actually did something about it, although, his actions supported and encouraged the bullies instead of the bullied. I just got so used to rejection that I didn't even try to make friends and the friends I did make I clung to so that they wouldn't leave me too. My mom talked to the one PE teacher who bullied me but she never did anything about it, despite loathing him deeply to this day (and she hasn't spoken to him in almost five years).
And why should kids like me be made to suffer? Why is it that the one subject I was very good at isn't offered at elementary schools while all the other related ones are? I was good at drama and that's the one art form not required in schools and that's sick. I think that since PE is active and drama is active, kids should be offered both. And not only that, PE teachers need to step up and treat kids like valuable human beings, not someone who isn't worth it because she can't dribble a basketball. I'm going to have to deal with AvPD for a long time and those kids and teachers who made my life horrible are walking about consequence free without a guilty conscience. Is that right??
And why should kids like me be made to suffer? Why is it that the one subject I was very good at isn't offered at elementary schools while all the other related ones are? I was good at drama and that's the one art form not required in schools and that's sick. I think that since PE is active and drama is active, kids should be offered both. And not only that, PE teachers need to step up and treat kids like valuable human beings, not someone who isn't worth it because she can't dribble a basketball. I'm going to have to deal with AvPD for a long time and those kids and teachers who made my life horrible are walking about consequence free without a guilty conscience. Is that right??